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- 1300-1500 (Creation)
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1 volume 10+ x 7+ in., 210 ff.; the number of lines to a page varies vellum
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Probably from Durham, but James notes "I do not find this book in the catalogues". Donated by Thomas Man, 1685.
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Sermons on the Virgin and saints; M. R. James's no. 13. Contains: (1) sermons on the Virgin, the second of which contains English verses and a story about an image in Cyclopes, India; (2) sermons on the saints from St Andrew to St Katherine, numbered 62 to 126; (3) "sermones de tempore", numbere from 1 to 53 and followed by a table; (4) a sermon in single lines, in another hand; (5) sermons in double columns of 49 lines, foliated from 1 to 33, incipit: Reuertar in principio cum Tobia; (6) sermons in another hand, 43 lines to a page, foliated 34 to 149; (7) a table to this last set of sermons.
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Microfilm available.